An Ecomodernist Manifesto
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 2015
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 30 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Approachable1 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendAn Ecomodernist ManifestoThe Breakthrough Institute, 2015Published online by its authors and freely available at ecomodernism.org; it has no standard print edition.
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A short statement signed by eighteen scientists, writers and environmentalists associated with the Breakthrough Institute, including John Asafu-Adjaye, Stewart Brand and Ted Nordhaus. It argues that humanity can protect nature by intensifying its activities rather than harmonising with it, through urbanisation, agricultural intensification, nuclear power and other technologies that shrink the human footprint, a process the authors call decoupling. It rejects the view that human flourishing requires limits to growth.
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